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Mayor Pete: NOW IN THE CONTEXT
Reprising this in the context of all in which you live and what came before you:
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For My Dad: Talking Ulysses
My dad, who died peacefully this morning at 85, always said that too much money and energy was spent keeping white men alive into their 80s. And, I…
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Can We Live With Not Knowing?
I spent much of education perplexed about why Europe let Hitler rise. We discussed it in high school, college, and graduate school. The question was the…
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Thinking in an Emergency
Have you heard this—this what?
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Hope and History Rhyme
Let's just call the ticket Biden-Harris and get back to work. Yes, I was savoring a fantasy of a grand valedictory address, one suitable for the…
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Sonic Emotions
ALEXA HAS NO knack for pianissimo. Here's how to tell. Set her to living-room volume and ask her to play Berlioz's rapturous epic of sex and opioids…
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Enter the K-Hive
You say Dems are in disarray? I say they’re on fire. If the party upends the ticket, after a moving and glorious valedictory address by the eminence…
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Contingency, Allegory, Liberalism
This post is a continuation from here.
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June 2024

Biden and Luck
Unlike those other systems, liberal democracies run on accidents and emergencies.
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One Less Trump Supporter
Sitting at the Apple Store in Brooklyn, I met a guy named Victor. He asked who I voted in the Democratic primary yesterday when he saw my "I voted…
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Dreaming of Doomsday
EVERY YEAR, IN late January, a small group of beetle-browed scientists, politicians, and journalists gather at the National Press Club in Washington…
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Monarchy in America
Liberalism is on the ballot, as it so often is. But is democracy? Put another way: Is anyone—RFK Jr., Biden, Trump, Cornel West— really running against…
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